Cheney runs Pakistan now too

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Cheney runs Pakistan now too
by GottaLaff about 14 hours ago - 3 comments


H/t: Think Progress and Commenter Mainsailset:

Current and past U.S. officials tell me that Pakistan policy is essentially being run from Cheney's office. The vice president, they say, is close to Musharraf and refuses to brook any U.S. criticism of him. This all fits; in recent months, I'm told, Pakistani opposition politicians visiting Washington have been ushered in to meet Cheney's aides, rather than taken to the State Department.
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America's Bad Deal With Musharraf, Going Down in Flames

By Ahmed Rashid

Sunday, June 17, 2007; Page B01

The problem is exacerbated by a dramatic drop-off in U.S. expertise on Pakistan. Retired American officials say that, for the first time in U.S. history, nobody with serious Pakistan experience is working in the South Asia bureau of the State Department, on State's policy planning staff, on the National Security Council staff or even in Vice President Cheney's office. Anne W. Patterson, the new U.S. ambassador to Islamabad, is an expert on Latin American "drugs and thugs"; Richard A. Boucher, the assistant secretary of state for South and Central Asian affairs, is a former department spokesman who served three tours in Hong Kong and China but never was posted in South Asia. "They know nothing of Pakistan," a former senior U.S. diplomat said.

Current and past U.S. officials tell me that Pakistan policy is essentially being run from Cheney's office. The vice president, they say, is close to Musharraf and refuses to brook any U.S. criticism of him. This all fits; in recent months, I'm told, Pakistani opposition politicians visiting Washington have been ushered in to meet Cheney's aides, rather than taken to the State Department.

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1. Figures. Cheney's grimy little fat paws

are on everything that has turned to crap. Get this fat bastard the hell out of the WHITE HOUSE, NOW! I am urging my Rep to support Kucinich's bid to impeach Cheney, but not sure if it will go anywhere, Gerlach is a typical CON tool.

Too bad, one can only hope :shrug:

[ladjf]

2. The sooner he could be placed in solitary confinement in

prison, the better for the World.